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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

August Pazio

August 16th
Street Date!

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Item Cards: Shattered
Star

$ 10.99 SRP

SDI

The power of the ages is yours to claim
with this treasury of mystical items. Among these riches wait all the rarest
relics and most mysterious magic items of the Shattered Star Adventure Path.
This 54-card set of beautifully illustrated, full-color item cards allows you
to track the riches you recover in vibrant detail. GameMastery Item Cards
allow heroes to keep track of their equipment in style. Each full-color card
features a beautiful portrait of an item on one side with blank space on the
back to keep notes. GameMastery Item Cards are compatible with any fantasy
roleplaying game.

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Map Pack: Rooftops

$ 12.99 SRP

SDI

GameMastery Map Pack: Rooftops contains
18 full-color 5 x 8-inch map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Jason
A. Engle, that combine to form a variety of rooftop configurations fit for
harrowing chases, cunning infiltrations, and high-story action! For use with
all tabletop roleplaying and miniatures games and suitable for experienced
GMs and novices alike, this product fits perfectly into any Game
Master’s arsenal. Wet, dry, and permanent markers erase from the tiles!

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PFA: ShS1: Shards of
Sin

$ 19.99 SRP

SDI

The Shattered Star Adventure Path begins
with a thrilling new adventure from fan-favorite author Greg A. Vaughan! In
Varisia’s bustling frontier city of Magnimar, the Pathfinder Society’s
newest lodge recruits a team of rookie Pathfinders to track down rogue agent
Natalya Vancaskerkin—who also happens to be one of the Varisian
criminals known as the Sczarni. Yet when these heroes track down the missing
woman, they find far more than a Pathfinder on the run, becoming embroiled in
a swiftly expanding hunt for a fragmented artifact from the ancient empire of
Thassilon—a quest that will take them to some of the most dangerous corners
of Varisia. This volume of Pathfinder Adventure Path launches the Shattered
Star Adventure Path and includes: -“Shards of Sin,” a Pathfinder
RPG adventure for 1st-level characters, by Greg A. Vaughan. -An exploration
of the ancient Sihedron artifact and its ties to powerful Thassilonian magic,
as well as details on the mysterious skymetals that fall to Golarion, by
James Jacobs. -Forays into the even seedier underbelly of Riddleport in the
Pathfinder’s Journal, by Bill Ward. -Five new monsters, by Benjamin Bruck,
Craig Campbell, Adam Daigle, Amanda Hamon, and James Wilbur.

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PFRPG: Bestiary Box

$ 34.99 SRP

SDI

The brutal beasts of the Pathfinder
Roleplaying Game Bestiary come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting
collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder
Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock,
each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a nasty monster from the
core Pathfinder RPG monster reference. Each cardstock pawn slots into a
size-appropriate plastic base, making them easy to mix with traditional metal
or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures
and more than 250 distinct creature images, the Bestiary Box is the best way
to ensure you've got the right creatures to push your Pathfinder campaign to
the next level!

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PFRPG: Rise o/t
Runelords AP Pawn Collection

$ 19.99 SRP

SDI

Key monsters and NPCs from the Rise of
the Runelords Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with this collection
of more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or
any tabletop fantasy RPG! Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a
beautiful full-color image of a monster or NPC from the Rise of the Runelords
campaign, including goblins, dragons, giants, ogres and dozens of unique NPCs
that are also suitable to represent player characters. Each cardstock pawn
slots into a size-appropriate plastic base from the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary
Box, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures.
With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures and tons of distinct
creature images, the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path Pawn Collection
brings the friends and foes of Pathfinder’s original campaign alive
like never before!

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PFRPG: Ultimate
Equipment

$ 44.99 SRP

SDI

Choose your weapon and stride boldly
into battle with Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment! Within this handy,
all-in-one reference, you’ll find 400 jam-packed pages of magic items
and adventuring gear, from simple camping equipment and weapons up to the
most earth-shaking artifacts. Included as well are handy rules references,
convenient price lists, and extensive random treasure generation tables, all
organized to help you find what you need, when you need it. With this vast
catalog of tools and treasures, the days of boring dragon hoards are over,
and your hero will never be caught unprepared again. Pathfinder RPG Ultimate
Equipment is a must-have companion volume to the Pathfinder RPG Core
Rulebook. This imaginative tabletop game builds on more than 10 years of
system development and open playtests featuring more than 50,000 gamers to
create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling
set of fantasy rules into the new millennium. Pathfinder RPG Ultimate
Equipment includes: -Thousands of items both magical and mundane, including
the best weapons, armors, magic items, and gear from the Pathfinder RPG
hardcover line and select other Pathfinder sources, as well as hundreds of
never-before-seen items. -Tons of special materials and magical abilities to
help you create exactly the magic item you’ve been looking for. -A
wealth of specific magic items, organized by type to ensure your character is
always wearing as much magic as possible. -An innovative new treasure
generation system, designed to help GMs roll up exactly what they need, every
time. -New alchemical weapons, tools, and poisons. -Kits to help your
character get the most out of her skills or profession, plus new mounts,
animal companions, and retainers. -Descriptions of every item, plus hundreds
of full-color illustrations to aid in window-shopping. AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

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PF Tales: Blood of the
City (novel)

$ 9.99 SRP

SDI, SOO

Luma is a cobblestone druid, a canny
fighter and spellcaster who can read the chaos of Magnimar’s city
streets like a scholar reads books. Together, she and her siblings in the
powerful Derexhi family form one of the most infamous and effective mercenary
companies in the city, solving problems for the city’s wealthy elite.
Yet despite being the oldest child, Luma gets little respect—perhaps
due to her half-elven heritage. When a job gone wrong lands Luma in the
fearsome prison called the Hells, it’s only the start of Luma’s
problems. For a new web of bloody power politics is growing in Magnimar, and
it may be that those Luma trusts most have become her deadliest enemies...
From visionary game designer and author Robin D. Laws comes a new urban
fantasy adventure of murder, betrayal, and political intrigue set in the
award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. 400-page mass market
paperback

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PFAP: S&S6: From
Hell's Heart

$ 19.99 SRP

SDI

With an enemy fleet intent on conquering
the Shackles looming on the horizon, the adventurers must build their own
fleet of pirates and buccaneers to defend against the invaders, culminating
in an epic naval battle in the middle of the Eye of Abendego. Will the
adventurers defeat the invading navy and save the Shackles? Or will the
independence of the Free Captains be eradicated forever? A Pathfinder
Roleplaying Game adventure for 13th-level characters, this volume concludes
the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path. This volume of Pathfinder Adventure
Path also presents a host of options for GMs looking to continue their Skull
& Shackles campaign, along with details on the deadliest sea monsters
said to lurk beneath the waves. New monsters from the depths of the sea and
exotic islands also fill the Pathfinder Bestiary, while Robin D. Laws (author
of the Pathfinder Tales novel The Worldwound Gambit) concludes his tale of
pirates and lost treasures in the Pathfinder’s Journal.

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PFCS: Paths of Prestige

$ 19.99 SRP

SDI

This indispensable 64-page book presents
thirty new prestige classes for use in your Pathfinder RPG campaign! Each
ten-level prestige classes is tied to a different organization or theme found
in the Inner Sea region of Golarion, featuring long-awaited explorations of
the Aldori Swordlords, Hellknight Signifers, Paladins of Irori, and the
infamous Gray Gardeners! Looking for a way to ride a mastodon into combat?
Take some levels in the Mammoth Rider prestige class! Eager to harness the
mysteries of ancient wizardy? Delve into the secrets of the Arclords of Nex!
Looking for some respect and power for your gunslinger? Join the ranks of
Alkenstar's Shield Marshals! These and many more prestige classes await
discovery in the pages of Paths of Prestige! By Jason Bulmahn, Benjamin
Bruck, Matt Goodall, Jason Nelson

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PFPC: Varisia,
Birthplace of Legends

$ 10.99 SRP

SDI

Never has a land needed heroes more than
Varisia. There, at the edge of civilization, barbarians clash with dark
armored invaders, foul creatures lurk within the hearts of titanic monuments,
and daring explorers unearth the secrets of a forgotten age of
wizard-tyrants. This definitive guide equips players with all they need to
face Varisia's dangers and mysteries, as well as dozens of new options for
playing characters native to this wild region—perhaps as a mystical
thundercaller of the Shoanti barbarians, a daring bravo leading a caravan of
Varisian wanderers, or an obsessed magic-user steeped in the lore of the
sinister Thassilonian empire. New options for character backgrounds and campaign
traits allow players to integrate their characters into any of the Adventure
Paths set in Varisia—such as the Rise of the Runelords or Shattered
Star Adventure Path—like never before. Varisia needs heroes, be one of
them with the all-new format Pathfinder Player Companion: Varisia, Birthplace
of Legends! Written by F. Wesley Schneider Each monthly 32-page Pathfinder
Player Companion contains several player-focused articles exploring the
volume’s theme as well as short articles with innovative new rules for
all types of characters, as well as traits to better anchor the player to the
campaign.

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PF Module: The Moonscar

$ 13.99 SRP

SDI

An interplanetary adventure for
16th-level characters. To astronomers and stargazers, the unusual pale patch
on the moon is known as the Moonscar. Many theories abound as to the nature
of this strange feature, yet the truth is a terrifying legacy from the ancient
past. When a renowned archeologist disappears while investigating a strange
mountaintop ruin, the adventurers must follow the abductee through a
mysterious portal into a land of lunar madness and demonic
nightmare—for what scars Golarion's moon is a blight from the depths of
the Abyss itself! This adventure builds upon elements first introduced in
Distant Worlds and the Book of the Damned II: Lords of Chaos, and features
challenges that will test the mettle of a group of four 16th-level Pathfinder
characters—such as those who might have finished a Pathfinder Adventure
Path and seek a new story to challenge their powers!